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Yep, it's glacial again.
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Been sluggish for me (from multiple networks) the last two days. Sometimes the occasional 504.
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Same, and I know for a fact that it's not my uplink.
Feels like something is hammering the backend database. |
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Sluggish, pages not loading completely.
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Gateway Timeout errors reported from NGINX
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Absent any hard evidence, but as someone with my ear to the ground about other sites, I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and assume that those "guests" are actually AI bot agents that are trying to index and gobble up any useful information that they can about the site.
This is happening quite frequently elsewhere, see: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/d...ire-countries/ And since MobileRead is a well-known trove of technical information about e-readers, tablets, etc, it would not surprise me if AI is targeting it for consumption in the same way that they would, say, Reddit. Just a theory. Like I said, I have nothing to back this up other than a hunch. There hasn't been a recent news event (like the Kindle D&T removal) that would suddenly force a bunch of refugees to this site looking for information. |
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That's just too many guests to be any sort of coincidence. But how are there so many AI bots out there? |
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I do have an idea. How about making it so you have to be registered to use MR? Or limit the number of guests at one time.
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But my guess would be a single AI might be multi-threading the process and having hundreds of different sessions to try to crawl/scrape the site as efficiently as possible. As noted, AI DGAF about the load it puts on the target site. It just gobbles it up like a hungry, hungry caterpillar. |
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Individual AIs with fat pipes making large numbers of parallel connections?
The guards that other sites put into place make for a less pleasant legitimate user experience, so the glory days of mobileread might be waning. |
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It's possible to start off with stricter measures for guests and when registering. Members would be OK for now.
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